The Bader Show

Yianni won 4 NCAA titles at Cornell and a Senior World silver to go along with his two cadet golds. He's recently joined the staff at Cornell as an assistant coach.

0:45 - Running his first clinic at VHS with a big brace

2:50 - Approach to coaching

4:10 - Being coached vs having a feel for positions

7:15 - Coaching vs being coached

10:45 - Working on the mental/emotional, relationship side

14:10 - Garage home practices as a kid

16:25 - Practices at Cornell

17:30 - Hip injury

20:10...

Aeoden Sinclair recently won a U20 World Title, after finishing 3rd at the NCAAs as a freshman.

0:30 - Becoming a world champ

1:10 - Believing he could be a world champ

2:50 - Comebacks were new for Aeoden at Worlds

4:30 - College wrestling is so hard, an advantage for hard matches

10:00 - Watching world semifinals and finals comebacks

20:30 - U20 Team Champions!

23:00 - Uniqueness of world championships

24:45 - Naked sauna, spa and the thai massage

34:00 - NCAA, RAF, USA, UWW

37:00...

Aaron Seidel was third at NCAAs as a true freshman for Virginia Tech and recently won a U20 World Championship in dominant fashion. 0:30 - Savage Seidel 2:00 - Making a big jump this year 3:20 - Intro to wrestling and getting hooked 5:15 - Being from PA and getting good on top 7:00 - Never won states before high school 9:20 - Chasing Jax Forrest going for his fourth state title 11:20 - Chance Marsteller, being intimidated 15:15 - Deciding to wrestle in college and Virginia Tech 18:30 - Broken hand before first college competition 25:00 - Wrecking everyone at Midlands, his first competition 28:20 - Jax Forrest and...

Nolf recently beat Evan Wick at RAF, avenging a loss from a year ago. We dig in about a potential Olympic run but I wouldn't hold your breathe. He's coaching a wrestling club and using that experience to fuel and shape his business, Athlete's Ocean.

1:00 - Putting jiu jitsu to the side

6:00 - Wrestling in RAF 1 with 3 days of training

11:00 - Bo Nickal and timing

13:30 - Training evolution for RAF

18:40 - Nolf’s unique entrances at RAF

21:15 - Rematch vs Wick

27:30 - Any chance at Ol...

FloWrestling's Tyler Meisinger joins the show to talk about growing up in southern California, getting into wrestling, how he developed his passion for video and growth as a wrestler at the University of Michigan.

00:00 - Arm wrestling

03:25 - Growing up by the beach

04:48 - Finding wrestling

06:53 - The first practice & shark bait

10:13 - Taekwondo helped with wrestling

13:25 - Going all-in on wrestling

17:58 - Growing up in the YouTube era

24:41 - High school success and setbacks

28:26 - The driver's...

Drake Ayala was a 2x NCAA finalist and 3x NCAA All-American for the Iowa Hawkeyes. He recently accepted an assistant coaching position at Iowa State.

1:00 - How healthy was Drake this season?

2:00 - The Freshman Fab Four (Jax, Davino, Blaze, Seidel)

4:10 - Last year wasn’t completely smooth for Drake and Hawkeyes

8:00 - Drake’s 2026 NCAAs11:00 - Iowa’s 2026 NCAAs13:30 - View of Iowa State as a Hawkeye

15:00 - Iowa - Iowa State rivalry

19:50 - Dealing with a tough year

22:50 - What were his plans for af...

Meyer Shapiro is transferring from Cornell to Nebraska after becoming a 3x All-American for Cornell. He joins the show to talk about his physical health, mental health and new home with the Huskers. 0:30 - Meyer is home in Maryland 1:35 - Health update 2:35 - Sitting out first semester 5:50 - 3 years and still no NCAA title 8:00 - The 2025 health scare 11:25 - Hurt neck, time off the mat 14:15 - Back on the mat 17:55 - Finishing 8th place at NCAAs 20:30 - Confidence & pressure 23:30 - Leaving Cornell for Nebraska 27:20 - Taking a Redshirt 30:20 - Open tournaments, freestyle? 33:30 - What will Meyer miss about Cornell? 35:45...

In May of 2025 Amit Elor wrestled in and won the World Team Trials while she was unknowingly pregnant. She stayed active and worked out the entire pregnancy. In May of 2026, about three and a half months after giving birth, Elor once again wrestled in and won the World Team Trials.

She will compete in the World Championships this fall looking to earn her fourth World/Olympic gold medal. She joins The Bader Show to share her incredible journey.

0:45 - Baby update

1:35 - Finding out she was pregnant

4:05 - Amit wrestled at 2025...

Defending World Champion Trent Hidlay joins the show after a special Final X wrestle-off against his good friend Mike Macchiavello. Now Trent has his sights set on chasing a second consecutive World Title. 0:00 Intro 0:40 Why Trent Hidlay Missed Final X 2:27 Choosing Between Wrestling & His Wedding 6:21 Mike Macchiavello's Impact On His Career 10:19 The Brutal NC State Practice Battles 15:01 Preparing To Wrestle Your Best Friend 17:20 Was It Awkward Wrestling Mike? 20:37 Final X Win & Wedding Week 23:04 Watching Final X During His Wedding 24:03 Honeymoon In Santorini 25:38 RAF Match Preview 27:29 Thoughts On Snyder vs Sadulaev 29:24 Does Winning Really Make You Happy? 32:51 Hayden Hidlay Returns...

Wyatt Hendrickson beat World Bronze medalist Mason Parris in two straight matches at Final X to make his second straight World Team. He will represent Team USA at the World Championships later this year. 0:30 - This summer will be different from last summer 2:00 - Wrestling Mason Parris at the Ranking Series tournament 4:15 - Wyatt’s thoughts on Final X matches 5:00 - Wyatt almost got pinned 6:30 - Challenges, reviews & new rules 12:45 - Rewatching a scramble against Parris 14:40 - Extra wrestling at the end of match 2 17:00 - Teammates losing and locker room tone 20:00 - Teammates keeping Wyatt accountable 23:50 - Learned a lo...

Get to know the story behind FloWrestling's international guru, Jon Kozak. 0:50 - Backstory, sports nut & wrestling 7:00 - Relationship with dad and wrestling 9:45 - Wrestling success 12:35 - Broke his leg in a match 18:30 - Felt good about the end of wrestling career 19:00 - Church, Bible college 22:00 - College baseball 24:30 - Jon became a pastor, started a church 26:30 - Became a huge MMA fan 28:15 - JB success brought Kozak back to wrestling 31:30 - The Yarygin FloFilm 33:33 - Starting to create wrestling content 39:30 - Started doing rankings for Flo 42:10 - Final X talk 56:25 - Kozak’s all-time favorite wrestler 57:00 - How does Ko...

IMG Academy is one of the most prestigious schools in the country and specializes in sports. They have started a wrestling program and Director of wrestling, Enock Francois and head coach Kevin Jack join the show to talk about their school, the vision and the future. 0:45 - What is IMG Academy? 3:15 - Sports education institution 5:45 - IMG is starting a wrestling program 8:15 - Why was Enock sold, immediately? 9:50 - Wanting to reflect a D1 program 11:00 - Head coach Kevin Jack 13:00 - Director of wrestling / Athletic director for wrestling 17:00 - What will IMG’s competition schedule look like? 21:30 - How ar...

Mike Macchiavello won his third US Open title and is headed back to Final X for the second time. He will face returning World Champion and friend, Trent Hidlay, whose wedding he will attend this summer. 0:50 - Why the headgear in freestyle? 2:00 - The young guys are so tough and hungry 4:30 - Internal emotions tied to wrestling 8:20 - How Macch and Trent Hidlay became friends 11:00 - Trent was Macch’s Final X training partner in 2023 11:30 - Feeling Trent improve over time 13:40 - Realizing Trent could be an opponent 14:30 - “See you at Final X” - they joked 19:00 - Emotionally prepar...

Grant Leeth helped start the club wrestling program at Tarleton State in Stephenville, TX with the understanding they would be working toward becoming division 1. This week some statements came out that seemed contrary. Grant joins the show to give his perspective on the situation.

0:55 - Starting a wrestling program at Tarleton State

3:25 - Check all the boxes

4:40 - Raising money

6:25 - Allan Rogers, the big donor

7:00 - Wrestling facility

8:15 - The vision and ribbon cutting ceremony

10:10 - The coaching situation

12:50 - Highlights and...

Bo Bassett just won the US Open at 65kg in both the U20 and senior divisions. He is already on the U23 world team and looks to make it on the U20 and senior teams as well.

Bo is committed to wrestle at Virginia Tech and will move there this summer and prepare to be in the line up for the Hokies next year at 141 or 149.

0:50 - Junior Hodge Trophy Winner

1:45 - Wrestling two brackets at US Open

4:15 - Iowa, wait no, Virginia Tech

Ben Askren and Donny Pritzlaff had a contentious rivalry back in 2007 and 2008. The two have gone on to become successful coaches, Askren with his AWA academies and Pritzlaff as head coach at Columbia University. The two join the show to talk through their past as competitors and share knowledge as coaches. In the end we see two former rivals become friends. 1:00 - Ben the content creator praised Donny the coach 1:35 - Ben watching Donny’s college career 3:00 - Donny learning who Ben was 4:05 - The mishap when Ben was recruited to Wisconsin 5:45 - Donny on Ben’s college career 7:45 - Wh...

Recent college wrestling conference realignment has seen a rebirth of the Pac 12 as several teams leave the Big 12 to join the Pac 12. Chris Pendleton and Neil Erisman, head coahces at Oregon State and Little Rock have been a part of the Pac 12 for some time now. SDSU leaves the Big 12 for the Pac 12 and Nate Engel is the director of strategy for Pac 12 wrestling. The four wrestling minds join the show to share their excitement for the opportunities that lie ahead. 1:05 - The role of college conferences 2:00 - Chris Pendleton on Pac 12 changes since 2014 3:25 - How football and money...

Cesar Alvan captured the hearts of wrestling fans at the 2026 NCAA Wrestling championships when he was relatively unknown and came into the NCAA tournament as the #12 seed. He ended up fourth and attributes a lot of his success to Columbia head coach Donny Pritzlaff and his staff. 0:30 - Who the hell is Cesar Alvan? 3:00 - Loved wrestling and combat sports 5:00 - When Alvan went all-in on wrestling & college opportunities 7:30 - Eyeing the UFC in his future 8:00 - Why Columbia University? 11:30 - Out with the old coaching staff, in with the new 12:40 - Alvan recruited Pritzlaff (you read that right) 17:15...

Gabe Arnold had trouble with communication last summer which lead to trouble with the Iowa program. After thinking he was off the team, Arnold regrouped to help the Hawkeyes secure wins at 174, 184 and 197 this season. He capped it off with by earning All-American honors at 197 after losing his first match at the NCAAs. 0:40 - Gabe’s eventful morning 3:20 - Was Gabe kicked off the Iowa team last summer? 11:00 - Gabe wanted to wrestle 174 at the start of the year 13:30 - Getting to where Arnold was “locked in” 17:00 - Endene left, what did that mean for Gabe? 19:00 - Angelo Ferrari got hu...

Forrest, Vega and Robideau all just won NCAA titles for Oklahoma State as true freshmen, helping the Cowboys to a second place finish at the NCAA Championships. Jax Forrest and Sergio Vega both finished the season undefeated, which had never been done before in the modern era. 0:55 - Coming home to Stillwater 2:25 - Robideau flipping from Minnesota to Oklahoma State 4:45 - Vega flipped from Cornell to Oklahoma State 8:00 - When Jax knew he wanted to wrestle at NCAAs 9:30 - Culture and development at OSU 14:25 - A lot of freedom at practice 15:30 - Robideau, Mike Meyers - Halloween - walkout 17:40...

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Tony Robie just won the ACC Championships for the second straight year as head coach at Virginia Tech and qualified all 10 wrestlers for the NCAA Championships. 1:30 - Robie’s 2009 VT interview on Flo vs VT today 7:25 - Turning points for Robie at VT 11:30 - Likes, challenges and concerns of National Duals Invitational 16:10 - ACC Champions, back to back 17:50 - Aaron Seidel 19:50 - Jax Forrest vs Seidel 23:20 - Eddie Ventresca 26:50 - Free admission to VT wrestling matches 29:45 - Bo Bassett 34:40 - Dealing with the lineup log jam 35:50 - Would Robie consider having a recruit leave high school early 37:20 - How do...

It was announced that Cal Baptist University will drop their wrestling program at the end of the season. Senior wrestler Timothy Cowan joins the show to shed some light and share his perspective on the situation.

1:10 - The experience and brotherhood of CBU Wrestling

4:25 - Finding out the program got cut, being blindsided

7:20 - Coach Moore and others talking after finding out

10:30 - What are potential solutions?

12:00 - KeepCBUWrestling.com

13:40 - Wearing singlets inside out. Then being silenced.

16:20 - Senior night and all the drama...

Brock Hardy is a 3x NCAA All-America and NCAA finalist from the University of Nebraska and is entering the final stretch of his college career.

0:50 - Brock is youngest of like 20 cousins that wrestled

2:30 - Wrestling clicked against Braxton Amos at Reno Worlds

6:30 - Watching Brock’s 10U, 100lbs Reno finals

9:00 - 4x State Champion

12:00 - Juggling recruiting with potentially taking a 2 year mission

14:40 - Brock’s two year mission in Rio de Janeiro

19:30 - Surround yourself with the right people

21:30 - Back to w...

Donny Pritzlaff is the head coach at Columbia University, they won the IVY League dual title for the first time since 1982.

0:30 - It’s Pritz-laugh not Pritz-loff

2:00 - Establish mentality and culture

4:45 - Most important time of season is March

6:50 - Highlights from last year, 5 NCAA qualifiers

9:00 - Beat Cornell first time in 40 years

11:25 - Big moments this season

14:20 - Sebastian Rivera, Jeff Buxton and coaching staff

20:10 - Goals and expectations are high

23:10 - Realistic long term goals

25:10 - Wh...

Rutgers head coach Scott Goodale has lead the program for 19 years and had one of the biggest wins of that span when they beat Minnesota for the first time in program history last Friday night in front of a big crowd at Jersey Mike's Arena.

1:00 - Big moments over the years for Rutgers

3:15 - Jersey Mikes Arena on Friday night

5:00 - Pep Talk! Let’s go party on these guys!

8:45 - Goodale is obsessive about dual meets, match ups, strategy

10:10 - Second half of Minnesota

11:30 - Halftime ro...

Casey Swiderski was an NCAA All-American at Iowa State and transferred to Oklahoma State for this season. He defeated former ISU teammate Jacob Frost last weekend as Oklahoma State beat Iowa State in their Big 12 dual. 0:40 - Casey’s introduction to wrestling and his hard-nosed dad 3:30 - Wrestling Dylan D’Emilio in the blood round 6:30 - Swiderski has swagger and wrestles with a chip on shoulder 7:30 - Looking to get your butt whooped 9:40 - Casey and Frost 10:30 - Why Casey went to Iowa State 11:30 - Why did Swiderski leave Iowa State? 15:25 - From training with dogs to training with wolv...

Princeton head coach Joe Dubuque joins the show after Princeton lost the IVY MAC Rivalry dual to Rider 20-19 after losing a team point when a Princeton wrestler's headgear landed on the mat after a match.

1:00 - Princeton vs Rider the IVY MAC Rivalry

5:00 - Princeton battled injuries prior to Rider dual

7:34 - Dubuque “thanks the refs for keeping everyone safe”

8:00 - We need to use common sense

9:00 - Only sport where they can take points away

10:50 - Watching the controversy of the headgear hitt...

Stanford wrestler Nico Provo knocked off returning NCAA Champion Vincent Robinson of NC State over the weekend.

1:05 - Nico’s dad, brother and sister all wrestled

5:05 - Nico went to Greens Farms Academy prep school

10:00 - Development at GFA in wrestling and academics

12:50 - Effort is more important that being smart in school

14:10 - Treating an exam like a wrestling match

17:00 - Originally committed to Cornell, followed Rob Koll to Stanford

22:00 - You’ll know when you know

23:10 - NCAA Championship experiences, being unpr...

Ty Snook was a Delaware state champion, he wrestled at the University of Maryland and became a member of the Delaware police department. Just before Christmas he was killed in the line of duty.

Iowa assistant coach Bobby Telford was very close with Ty and the Snook family. Telford joins the show to tell stories and honor his fallen brother.

1:30 - When Bobby forst met Ty

3:00 - Ty went out a hero

4:15 - Bobby, Ty and his buddies at Tyrant Wrestling

6:50 - Ty picking Bobby up after a lossl<...

Aeoden Sinclair wrestled at Askren Wrestling Academy and values that experience. He is now a redshirt freshman at Mizzou and is ranked #2 at 184.

0:45 - Aeoden ran 7 miles this morning

1:30 - Aeoden was too rough for football, so he wrestled

3:20 - It was more fun when he got beat up less

4:10 - Meeting Askren’s & Tristan Moran

5:55 - Wrestled Mitchell Mesenbrink in state finals

8:50 - Patient Panda

11:00 - Learning from Askrens & love for AWA

17:30 - Aeoden hit a deer on the way to practice

Jaxon Joy is a 3x state champion from Ohio who is now the #2 ranked wrestler in the NCAA at 149 for Cornell University. Last weekend he won first place at the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invite.

0:58 - Jaxon’s introduction to wrestling and love for it

3:40 - Wrestling loft at his parent’s house

8:15 - How did Jaxon develop his wrestling style?

9:00 - Learned penetration step and leg riding at the same time

10:00 - Cradle innovation

12:30 - Thinking about wrestling

13:25 - Recruiting process and choosing Cornell

MJ Gaitan is a 2x NCAA qualifier at Iowa State. He recently had a big win over Patrick Kennedy in the CyHawk dual which helped propel Iowa State over Iowa for the first time since 2004. 0:50 - MJ did jiu jitsu first, then started wrestling 3:10 - MJ made a big jump and went all in on wrestling during COVID 8:15 - Gaitan made a break through at Super 32 9:30 - How MJ developed his tricky/funky style 13:20 - Committing to CBU, eventually deciding on Iowa State 15:45 - Wrestling at NCAAs and the blood round on Friday night 19:50 - The CyHawk rivalry 23:45...

Kaleb Larkin is a redshirt sophomore at Arizona State University. He is taking college wrestling by storm and is currently ranked #2 at 149. 0:45 - Wrestling in first home dual at ASU 2:00 - Early years during his dad’s Sunkist practices 4:00 - Dad as his youth coach and work arounds to that 6:00 - Valiant Prep 7:30 - Kaleb didn’t fall into love with wrestling until 11th grade 10:50 - Getting into ASU room and wrestling at Bill Farrell were big 12:00 - Training a lot without competing a lot 14:00 - Thinking about wrestling when off the mat 15:20 - Knowing the positions and not bein...

Ohio State freshman Ben Davino had an impressive weekend at National Duals which included a win over 2x NCAA finalist Drake Ayala of Iowa in the finals which helped propel the Buckeyes over the Hawkeyes for first place. 0:40 - Ben started wrestling at the age of 5-6 and cried a lot 2:45 - Consistency and always showing up 3:50 - Goals and state titles 4:55 - COVID and missing the 8th grade state championship 6:40 - Development during COVID and the barn tournament 9:10 - Going in on freestyle 10:00 - Experience at U17 World Championships 13:20 - Rebounding from Worlds at WNO 14:00 - Recruiting process 16:15...

Trent Hidlay and Parker Keckeisen have wrestled three times and gone back and forth. Their alma maters, NC State and UNI, will wrestle first round at National Duals. The two talk about their history on the mat and the upcoming first round dual.

1:10 - Parker was runner up at Bill Farrell over the weekend in NYC

2:35 - Trent got McDonalds breakfast last time he wrestled in NYC

4:00 - Trent says it’s not fun wrestling against Parker

6:30 - Parker on what it’s like to wrestle Trent

9:25 - Trent and...

Zack Ryder won four NY state titles who skipped his senior year of high school to train at M2 Training Center in PA. He went on to wrestle at Penn State for a year before transferring to Oklahoma State.

1:00 - Three older sisters beat up Zack growing up

3:45 - Zack got hooked in 8th grade

4:45 - 7th grade Ryder sister changed the law

5:10 - Lost to Stevo in 7th grade state finals

6:20 - Zack met David Taylor and eventually moved to train at M2 his senior year

9:15...

Kylie Welker just won a U23 world title for Team USA. She also is the main character in the series HAWKEYES: The First Season With Iowa Women's Wrestling.

0:45 - Another world title

1:30 - Won her 2nd senior World Bronze, a little disappointed

2:55 - First international trip

5:00 - Kylie finally has her process down!

8:00 - Kylie can flip that switch and be mean

10:10 - Was very confident she would win U23 gold

11:00 - Watching her Gold medal match

14:40 - Kylie will take some time...

Ben Askren continues to make progress. He updates us on his recovery, talks building a club/business, National Duals, coaching philosophies and more. 0:40 - Had a great workout and more good days than bad 3:00 - How sensitive is his chest/scar? 4:20 - Coaching from the chair 6:15 - AWA success, make the kids enjoy it 8:55 - Don’t cut any/much weight 10:00 - Don’t over compete 10:50 - LIttle to no 8th grade national success 12:15 - Mitchell Mesenbrink, take days off 13:20 - Making the wrestling room a place they love being in 14:00 - Dan Gable philosophy was meant for adults 16:20 - “T...

Wyatt Hendrickson won and NCAA title, won the Hodge Trophy and make the US World Team. He fell short and Worlds and learned a big lesson this summer which will take him far. 1:00 - Dustin Plott bruised his face 1:30 - Reaction to FloFilm “The Year of Wyatt Hendrickson” 2:25 - Wrestling camps, hectic schedule, not ideal situation 4:00 - Subtle art of not giving a F#%K 5:00 - Not sleeping before Worlds, questioning himself and doubting 5:55 - Head pinch instead of go-behind 6:45 - Camps vs training 7:45 - RTC coaches treat you like an adult, let you make decisions 9:30 - Wyatt would do i...